The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1928, Page 4

! HAnaXxTS Vare Keeps Tab on —— ¥ 4 a Seal Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW Y ORK, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928 There is a popular belicf that tragedy plays a big part in thg life of clowns. This would seem to be Horne out in the case of the great Political comedian Charles Dawes He recently went to a park in his e town, Evanston, Ill., to make @ speech. Despite wide advertising Only half a dozen people were pres- ent. The vice-president scowled and Went home without saying one word that could be published. . sf For Vice-President! 3 out! He's coming!” “He doesn’t mean anything. He’s @ politician. Robinson, vice presi- dential candidate on Al Smith’s ticket.” “Why is he waving his fists?” his personality photo. “Adolph, a politician ma @ platform or a personali “What's Al & “Al Smith be a president | has to have something of a nose| and a smile if he’s going to help| the working class much.” “What does Hoover think?” “Hoover says it’s absurd to think the country will stride forward un- less the president has fat cheeks.” “How about Joe Robinson.” “He says dangerous for a big country like the United States to have a vice president without big fists.” “What good is a big fist for a politician.” “It holds more.” “Well, who's this down here.” _ For Secretary Of State | the spectators were simply amused, | “That's Eddie Cannonball Mar- tin, prize fighter.” “What's he posing like a poli- tician for?” “His supporters say if Joe Rob- imson can be vice president with a reach of 68 inch Cannonball Martin ought to in the cabinet with a reach of 64 inches.” . * * WThe average American is ith a certain talent for lyi he treats it so lightly it is seldom} more than a hobby. Not so with} senators. Their mendacity has a| professional quality. For -instance.| Nye and Brookhart, before the G. O P, convention said that Hoover| would sink the farmers. Now these| two senators say he will save them. He will do neither. The farmers. | ultimately will save themselves with the aid of the workers by setting up @ government of their own. Gems of Learning Hubert Work, Hoover manager: "Tt is difficult for me to believe! that farmers are in such distress as pictured.” Too near the truth for a Tepublican politician to believe. _ Merchants’ Association in letter to New York State Crime Commis- he fewer would ase of conviction: be greater, espe y in the crimes of violence, if more of our mabstantial and successful business would serve on criminal juries.” business man is willing to for- * his own past and convict all the ; i bandit Plan Miners’ Relief Drive in Philade!phia " PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 19.— 21 and July 28 is National mers’ Relief Week. All over the country the great mas: of sympa- of the striking miners are g behind the call for relief. Philadelphia, monster house to collections will be held on two irdays, July 21 and July 28, be- ning at 1 P. M., from the follow- six stations: N. Franklin St. nsington Labor Lyceum, w. cor 8th and Ritner Sts. Tasker St. | any knowledge of the code, even go-| 5 Girard Ave., West Philadel- | BALLOTS ALL | MARKED WITH SECRET CODE Machine Pays Poll Tax | for Thousands (By a Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— The Vare republican organization, like all good republicans, are 100 cent. Americans, worship the nment, including the eminent ol Coolidge, and tell all the citizens | of Philadelphia to be good “law” | abiding American citizens. Tammany Hall and all the other democratic organizations do the same thing. In Philadelphia, since there is but one political party of | any potency at the present time, it is necessary only to examine this Vare-controlled republican organiza- tion and see whether they really mean what their leaders and hench- men are always saying. According to the “law” during elections, the only legal voting form is the secret, direct, Australian bal- lot. This would make it impossible for anyone to learn how the ballot was used. But all Philadelphians know that the Vare organization | keeps tab on every voter who has voted, from president to dog-catcher. Courageous workers, however, will vote the Workers (Communist) } Party ticket and ignore the threats | of the division and ward leaders( or| heelers) as they are known in the local vernacular. Marked Ballots. How do the Vare “heelers” keep such a close tab on every voter? There are many methods employed. In the recent testimony given in the} Vare-Wilson contest for senatorial | seat from Pennsylvania, the stubs of | the allot in one division were all marked up by a secret code. The division “heeler” declined to admit | ing so far as to claim it meant! nothing. However the lawyers, the investigators (U. S. senators), and realizing the significance of this | code. | There is a law in the state of Pennsylvania that every voter is re- quire dto pay 50 cents each election, this 60 cents being known as a} | “poll” tax. The voters are required |™in, district organizer of the Work- to pay this out of their own pocket, | and no one else is permitted to pay. | The Vare machine, however, pur- chases thousands of votes each elec- | tion day by paying the voters 50} cents, or rather giving him a poll | tax certificate free of charge. So| great is the “respect” of the ma-| A\chine leaders for the “almighty” | Where a meeting of unemployed had Free Tax Receipts. | During the hearings before the senate “investigators,” one Freder-| ick Schadt, a petty Vare election of- ficial, testifed that the 20th Ward leaders, Michatel Mullin, a deputy | coroner, and Edward Connor, a magistrate, had instructed him to is-| sue free poll tax receipts to 90 voters in the 18th division of that ward. This testimony, revealing as it did, methods in vogue in the great “free” city of Philadelphia, was highly damaging to the Vare ma- chine, But it must be remembered that nothing is holy to Philadelphia re-| publicans, and that in this city their | sway is absolute. So they imme- diately “framed” Schadt, the gov-| ernment witness, had him arrested | and sent to jail. This arrest and imprisonment, both illegal, was ar-| ranged not only as a punishment to Schadt for telling tales out of school, but also to intimidate any other witness who might do likewise at the further hearings to be held within a week or ten days. It is in this fashion that the Vare republican organization sets an ex- ample of 100 per cent. enforcement, going so far as even to frame-up government witnesses. One thing is certain, however, the workers of Philadelphia have had enough of this thing. They are go- ing to the polls this election day and will not permit themselves to be bluffed by the threats of Vare “heelers.” They will vote for Foster and Gitlow and the Workers Party ticket straight, as the only repre- sentatives of their class on the ballot, RABIN, Al Smith a Traitor, Say Texas Democrats C. DALLAS, Texas, July 19 (UP).— Alfred E. Smith, democratic presi- dential nominee, was branded a traitor to the constitution of the United States by V. A, Collins, key- note speaker at the organization meeting of anti-Smith democrats of Texas here today. Collins was applauded enthusias- | tically by the 500 democrats who at- | tended the meeting. “This is a crusade to save the ideals of America,” Collins declared. Mellon On Financial | Visit to Europe United States, and one of the wealthiest men in the world, ar- 2nd | rived today from America and mo- Cambria Sts. (entrance from! tored to Dinard. | The French finance minister an- | nounced that, as yet, no conference| saved thousands of dollars due to. had been scheduled with Mellon. UPHOLDS RAID has been pending since February; up- |turer of fire fighting equipment in| _ PARIS, July 19.—Andrew Mellon, | —The court of appeals today upheld 6 Gordon St., Strawberry Man-| secretary of the treasury of the All Voters for President or Dog-Catc Heiress’ “Poverty” Makes Good Publicity Isobel Stone, daughter of the’ late Gov. Stone William A. of Pennsylvania, who left her a mere $3,000,000 for spending money, The lady, formerly a Broadway prima donna, knows the value of ad- vertising and finds that “poverty” pays. training. is now living in a barge where singing is her favorite exerc Photo shows her in VANCOUVER STUDENTS DENOUNCE MILITARISM (By a Worker Correspondent) VANCOUVER, Wash., July 19.— Ten students of the Pacific Coast Workers’ Summer School distributed leaflet denouncing the Citizens’ Military Training Camps at a dance given here recently for 600 recruits marking the official closing of the camp. Starting from different parts of the hall at a prearranged signal seven girls from the school passed rapidly through the crowd, giving the leaflets to the recruits. When the girls tried to ieave, they were stopped by armed guards at the door. As soon as the officers read copies of the leaflets, they confis- cated as many as they could from the recruits who had received them Additional guardse were placed at the door, with strict orders to let nc one out. Boys who had received the leaflets were asked to identify the distributors. Detained for an Hour. Four, of the students were identi- fied and questioned by the officers After, being detained for almost an hour, the girls were released. The leaflets were eagerly read by the recruits and others present at the dance, especially after the offi- cers began to confiscate them. Com- ments ranged from a savage “Who- ever did that ought to be hung!” to “Well, what they say seems to be all right. Contain Worker Slogans. The leaflets described the bad con- ditions in the camp; pointed out the function of the army and navy in protecting American irfvestments ON UNEMPLOYED Philadelphia ; Workers Given Fines (Special To DAILY WORKER.) PHILADELPHIA, July 18.—De- claring that the five workers who on February 12 led an unemploy- ment demonstration were enemies of the constitution and by inference that they had no standing before the law, Judge Alessandroni, well- known Vare machine tooi, yesterday refused the appeal of these workers who were attacked by the police when they urged their demands for vnemployment insurance and other support for the jobless. re) The decision on this case, which holds sentence of Herbert Benja- ers (Communist) Party in Philadel- phia; Michael Tuoler, Jennie Cooper, Fannie Cutler and George Evans, who are charged with villifying the mayor and the president when po- lice prevented unemployed workers from entering the headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party, been called. The original sentence imposed a fine of $10 on the work- ers. Eleven others, who were arrested together with Benjamin, and also) fined in the original hearing before | PFO i 1 Magistrate Fahnstock, were released toad and as a strikebreaking and their appeal sustained. | agency at home. It contrasted con- : | ditions in the Soviet Union with con. The International Labor Defense | Gitions here, appealing to de on will carry an appeal against this | cruits to resist all att : conviction to the higher courts with : eae Sta hig t the Soviet Union, “the trfend a view to establishing the right of | workers of all Goantens cI pie workers to meet without police per- | pans were: pure Fight for a month’s vacation with Soe pay! STRIKE AROUSES Fight against capitalist militer- ism! Fight against imperialist aggres- | sion in China and Nicaragua! ELMIRA CHAMBER Fight against all attempts |erush the Soviet Union! , Fight for and defend the work- ers’ interests! British Cable Trust To Swallow Marconi LONDON, July 19 (UP).—Mar- coni Company directors announced to WASHINGTON, July 19 (FP).— Copies of a circular issued by the} Elmira (N: Y.) chamber of com- merce to all other local chambers of | commerce in the United States, de-| nouncing the strike of the Intl Assn. of Machinists at the plant of | the American-LaFrance & Foamite| Corporation, in Elmira, have reached machinist general headquarters in| Washington. This circular, inspired by Presi- dent Rose of the corporation, seeks| A general meeting will be held to explain away the fact that he de-| next fall. Then the details of the clared for the open-shop and against | plan to me a wage adjustment parley, and that! the Eastern and Associated cable 289 out of 300 men in the plant) Companies in a British empire com- walked out and have stayed out | munications organization will be out- The concern is the chief manufac-|jjnoq, | $2,152,355, permitting an interim diyidend of 10 per cent, less income tax, on ordinary shares. the United States. FSIS RA PZ The Woman Kills Self ieee . . EST VEG In Religious Frenzy | Nonunst ag aoa DIRECTIONS I a MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 19.—In-|| Hudson Tubes to Hob hee Late tense religious mania induced the | wanna Railroad Berkele: to Heights, N, J. BERKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1. suicide yesterday of Mrs. Annie At-* kins, a 40-year-old woman who lives in Hollywoed. Mrs. Atkins was stricken in the midst of the church | service Sunday morning. and it re-| ling, today that profits for 1927 were ¥ rge the companies with | PALO VALLEY NEGROES FIGHT SEGREGATION | AmericanLegionBacks | Race Prejudice By a Worker Correspondent) The Negroes of Palo Valley | Southern California, adjacent to the | Colorado River, are making a deter mined fight to prevent the introduc. tion of segregated schools for Mex ican and Negro children to begin with the coming September school sessions, is a cotton producing valley and is settled chiefly by people from Texas and the hinterlands of the old South, who nurse all the hatreds and prejudices of the old Negro slav- ery regime. The .entire move for separate schools has the backing of the local American Legion, which in California has become a Negro hat- labor-bating organization. Its activities parallel those of the Kv Klux Klan. The Negroes have formed an Anti- Segregation Society under the lead ership of George Ivans, Sam J White, John Davis and John H Owens. Funds are being collected in preparation for a legal battle to test the constitutionality of such a procedure. The state constitution provides against separate schools. A. spirited mass demonstration was held on July 8, in the Methodist |Church at Blythe,tCal. Plans were completed for bringing in Attorney MacBeth of Los Angeles to handle the legal end of the matter. A com- mittee, consisting of John H. Owens Ed. Bell and Wade Bowen, was ap- pointed to confer with the local school board and superintendent of school, Prof. George R. Scott. Prof. Scott has been acting in a very vacillating manner, and his sympathies appear to be directed against the Negroes. Previous com- mittees sent to confer with him havc received very unsatisfactory replies WORLD TOURISTS ARRIVE IN LONDON 2 70-Year Old Women | to Visit USSR Word was received here via cable \by Milton Goodman, manager of World Tourists, Inc., 69 Fifth Ave. that two groups of tourists sent out by the organization have arrived safely in London, completing the first leg of their trip to Russia. | Among the tourists is Miss Ella | Ball, 70 year old educator, who, be- fore leaving New York said that she felt that she must see the new so- cial system being evolved in Russia before she died. Advices from Lon- |don said that Miss Hall is standing, ‘up’ well under the excitement of the trip. Miss Hall eomes from an old American family. Her grandgather is the founder of Keuka College at | Keuka, New York. She will visit Central Russia, White Russia | Ukraine, Crimea, Caucasus and the | Don and Volga districts. | Another 70 year old member of |the same group is Miss Elizabeth | Sommer of Philadelphia. 20 Truckmen Strike For Wage Increase MONTICELLO, Ia. July 19.— | employed in, highway paving near | here, struck for an increase in |wages. The Contractors hired | Twenty unorganized truck drivers, | | scabs, whont-they paid the old scale. | Bian SER kA her, Says Letter New Producing Firm Planning NEW MACHINES Six Attractions for Broadway OUST MONESSEN TIN CO, WORKERS \July 4th Off—Without Pay, of Course | (By a Worker Correspondent) MONESSEN, Pa., (By Mail).—I | will write a few lines about the working conditions here in Mones- sen. The American Sheet and Tin Plate Company sure was generous to their workers. We got one day off for the 4th of July (naturally without pay), and some of the work- ers took advantage of their holiday and left town. Being that they could not get back here in time to report for work they just naturally lost their jobs. That’s how strict the bosses are here if a worker can’t report for work every day—he can get out and stay out. Many others are willing to take their places. Inventions Oust Workers. The Pittsburgh Steel started up No. 2 Rod Mill just recently, which will give a few more workers a chance to earn more profits for the bosses. No. 2 Rod Mill has been closed for quite a while since No. 1 with its new patent machines, could take care of all the orders with less |human labor and greater output. No. 2 mill would require at least four times as many workers as No. 1. So now, since they have more orders to fill, they have to start up No. 2 where the workers get about |2 or 8 days a week, while No, 1 works 7 days a week. Page Steel and Wire Company hired about 6 men the other morn- ing to work for about $8 a day Their work didn’t last no more than three days because the company re- ceived a couple carloads of brick and they wanted them unloaded in a hurry The boss was sure a nice real fellow to work for. When he saw that your wheel-barrow was not loaded to the top he just gave you a yellow slip and told you to go to the office and draw your money. That’s the kind of working condi- | tions we have here in Monessen, Pa. —I,.E, M. Stock producers, usually inactive STARS OR See MADO EI on the main street known as Broad- way, are going in for producing on a large scale, and for showing their | attractions in Broadway theatres. | Here is Charles E. Blaney, a well-| known stock producer, who is to) make his debut as head of a new) corporation which will seek fame} and fortune on the main stem. No Jes’ than six are \planned for the coming season, | The first of these to go in re- | | hearsal is a comedy drama titled “Trimmed” by James Hagan. The} play will be éried out in Mr. Blan-| | ey’s stock theatre in New Bruns-| | wick, N. J., and perhaps come here in August. 2 Other plays listed are “Passion’s | Paradise,” by Jacques Harblane; | “The Beautiful Shop Girl,” a musi- cal comedy; “Found Wanting”; “Hit and Run” and “The Heartache | Kid,” an original opus based on) theatrical life. Altogether an am- bitious program for a stock pro- ducer. productions Carroll McComas, who plays the leading role in the United Actors’ philosophical play, “The Ladder,” at the Cort Theatre. YACHT MANIAGS: ~ SHANGHAI GREW Must Sink or Swim to oe A crime thriller that gripped Lon- don .in 1862 was given its second New York revival by the East Side Stock Company last night, when “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, or The String of| Pearls” by Frederick Hazleton) Land, They Boast opened at the Laboratory Theatre. The cast includes W. Gordon Craig, (By Federated Press). Lydia Cortese, Dick Adams, Marion | oh ag Crowne, Helen Grayson, Byron Mc-| if the big sail Spee ae Grath, Burton Mallory, Karol Rem.| breezes first across the Atlantic to boy, Walter Elisberg, and Helen| Santander, Spain to win King Al- Huberth. During the week of July | phonso’s gold cup, the speed boat’s 23 the company will play W. S.| owner can thank union seamen for Gilbert’s “Engaged.” | his victory. The Baker brothers, De- | troit owners of the Azara, broke all Marie Saxon, last seen here in| precedents for millionaire yachts- “The Ramblers,” will be the prima! men when they went to the Seamen’s | donna in Lewis E. Gensler’s produc-| Union hall in New York for a deep- tion ‘Ups-a-Daisy,” the musical| water crew. comedy with which Mr. Gensler will) rer rival, the Atlantic, recruited | make his debut as a manager on|. Grew from byways of Brooklyn's Broadway where he is known al-| waterfront, put them on the yacht ready as a composer of musical! two days before sailing and then scores. |anchored off Sandy Hook. “They'll . - have to sink or swim to get ashore,” | W. C. Fields will be starred by said Millionaire Bell of New York Earl Carroll in his new “Vanities,” | t prevent another rebellion of fore- | which opens August 6th, at the Earl| castle hands. | Carroll Theatre. | | SMALLER BILLS; LESS MONEY. WASHINGTON, July 19 (UP).— Acting Secretary of Treasury Mills announced today the new United States paper money—about one- third smaller than present bills— will be put in circulation July 1, 1929. LEGLESS FLYER STARTS SOON.| TRAIN CRASH KILLS 10. NORRISTOWN, Pa. July 19) ‘ WARSAW, Poland, July 19 (UP). (UP).—M. R. “Dihger” Daugherty, —Ten persons were killed and many | legless, one-armed aviator, who|imjured today when a passenger| hopes to fly to Rome on a trans-/ train collided with a freight train, atlantic solo flight, said he expected | Gronjec, near Warsaw. Four pas- to get started today or tomorrow. | Senger cars were demolished. “T may start this afternoon if the | weather is all right,” he said. “I’ll| go north over Trenton, Staten Island and then to Long Island.” ~ SUBSCRIBE BOOTH Thea., 45 St. W. of Biway The Heart of Coney Island n erna’ 10na: ess TTLE OF CHATEAU-THIERRY Correspondence GRAND ST. FOLLIES PARK rae? 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